If EPA decides to tighten the sulfur limit in gasoline, one industry source says, refiners would have to make a substantial investment to reach a stricter level, which would likely increase the price of gasoline.

Requirements to further reduce sulfur would also require a higher energy input for the refining process, the source says, which in turn would likely increase GHG emissions from the plants — which could clash with EPA’s planned new source performance standard (NSPS) to set first-time GHG emissions limits for the refining industry.

Needless to say, these standards will provide NO benefits to the environment or public health.

Sulphur increases the albedo of clouds by causing more sunlight to be reflected.
So, they’re concerned about AGW and they’re going to increase the amount of sunlight reaching the ground AND increase GHGs?

The EPA’s goal is to have standards so strict that our activities are undetectable. Not only is this ridiculous but it is unreasonable, groundless in most cases, and completely unaffordable. Of course, the EPA could not care less what this does to the economy or the people. They are secure that they have the power and the funding, and that their jobs are secure.

Are their jobs secure? Not really. They exist at the will of Congress and can be disbanded or culled at any time. It is time to hit Restart on the EPA and boot up only the reasonable regulations and cashier the rest.

It is indeed typical of a bureaucracy to feel that it needs to show that it is doing its job. In this case, the EPA is constantly revising standards, always to more strict requirements, irregardless of the impact. They are arrogant in their attitude that they would not be doing it, if it was not more important than God.

The biggest problem with the EPA is that they have a culture based on politics not science. They banned DDT based on creating political power for the environmental movement. They banned CFCs based on an advertising campaign and lobbying (no valid science involved here – the chemistry claimed has been proven false, but Dupont made a lot of money). The Finding on CO2 is based on Obama’s wish for cap and trade and the global warming agenda.

While the majority of baby boomers have been working and seeing to their families, the public education system has become the nightmare predicted in a 1983 federal report entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, whose authors observed: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war;” activist jurists have diluted our personal property rights; politicians have used the public coffers to reward contintuencies; the War on Poverty has transferred billions with no apparent effect; Affirmative Action has given us the most incompetent president in our nation’s history; and the federal government has grown to twenty-five percent of GDP, creating onerous burdens for producers to include entitlements to half the population. Apathy is no longer an option.